A list of best-selling books in the United States, compiled by The New York Times.
Paperback Fiction
Paperback Nonfiction
By: Lisa Wingate
Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge - until strangers arrive in force....
I was rivetted, finished in three days.
By Lin Cloward on 06-26-17
1. Before We Were Yours
By: Celeste Ng
Narrated by: Jennifer Lim
A riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives....
Boring and Drawn Out!!!
By M. Ryder on 10-05-17
2. Little Fires Everywhere
By: Heather Morris
Narrated by: Richard Armitage
This beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov - an unforgettable love story in the midst of atrocity....
A hopeful perspective on a harrowing time
By melyssa57 (A Page Before Bedtime dot com) on 10-10-18
3. The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Series: The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Book 1
By: John Grisham
Narrated by: Michael Beck
Pete Banning was Clanton's favorite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, a father, a neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church....
4. The Reckoning
5. Good Omens
Narrated by: Will Patton
An 11-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens....
Will Patton great - story so so
6. The Outsider
By: Bill Clinton, James Patterson
Narrated by: Dennis Quaid, January LaVoy, Peter Ganim, and others
How could a US president vanish without a trace? And why would he choose to do so? Find out....
Wanted it to be so much better
By K. Moeller on 06-18-18
7. The President Is Missing
Narrated by: Dennis Quaid, January LaVoy, Peter Ganim, Jeremy Davidson, Mozhan Marnò
By: A. J. Finn
Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee
For readers of Gillian Flynn and Tana French comes one of the decade's most anticipated debuts....
An excruciating listen.
By Debra on 01-12-18
8. The Woman in the Window
By: Gail Honeyman
Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron
Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking....
Completely fine? No... Completely AWESOME
By Janna on 07-15-17
9. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
By: Amor Towles
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin....
A Reprieve Amidst Ugly News, Relentless Negativity
By Cathy Lindhorst on 08-27-17
10. A Gentleman in Moscow
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Kyf Brewer
Introducing a remarkable new character from number-one New York Times best-selling writer David Baldacci: Atlee Pine, an FBI agent with special skills assigned to the remote wilds of the southwestern United States who must confront a new threat - and an old nightmare....
Damn, Baldacci is good!
By Wayne on 11-14-18
11. Long Road to Mercy
Series: Atlee Pine (unabridged), Book 1
12. The Overstory
The Handmaid's Tale: Special Edition
By: Margaret Atwood, Valerie Martin - essay
Narrated by: Claire Danes, full cast, Margaret Atwood
After a violent coup in the United States overthrows the Constitution and ushers in a new government regime, the Republic of Gilead imposes subservient roles on all women....
WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT
By ambER on 04-20-17
13. The Handmaid's Tale: Special Edition
Series: The Handmaid's Tale, Book 1
By: Liane Moriarty
Narrated by: Caroline Lee
Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She's funny, biting, and passionate; she remembers everything and forgives no one. Celeste is the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare, but she is paying a price for the illusion of perfection....
Oh, Calamity!
By L. O. Pardue on 10-07-14
14. Big Little Lies
By: Tommy Orange
Narrated by: Darrell Dennis, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Alma Ceurvo, and others
There There is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen. It's "masterful...white-hot...devastating" (The Washington Post) at the same time as it is fierce, funny, suspenseful, thoroughly modern, and impossible to pause....
A gorgeous, white-hot debut
By Kat - Audible on 06-12-18
15. There There
Narrated by: Darrell Dennis, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Alma Ceurvo, Kyla Garcia